Conscious Self Quotes

On the deepest level, what I know for sure is that who I am, essentially, is consciousness and consciousness is timeless and it transcends the body; it transcends the psychological "me," the egoic self. Everybody can know themselves as consciousness.

Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts, it is something celestial and divine.

The subliminal self is in no way inferior to the conscious self. It knows how to choose and to divine.

Feelings aroused by the touch of someone's hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith - all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well.

Our subliminal mental processes operate outside awareness because they arise in these portions of our mind that are inaccessible to our conscious self; their inaccessibility is due to the architecture of the brain rather than because they have been subject to Freudian motivational forces like repression.

The genetic you and the neural you aren't alternatives to the conscious you. They are its foundations.

Modern science tells us that the conscious self arises from a purely physical brain. We do not have immaterial souls.

I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.